Incubating our Turkey Eggs

Incubating our Turkey Eggs

Incubating our Turkey Eggs

We’ve been collecting eggs from our Bourbon Red Turkeys for the last 2 weeks and it’s finally time to start incubating them! Turkey eggs incubate for 27.5 – 28 days (unlike chickens at about 21 days). Otherwise, the process is about the same. We collected fertile eggs and stored them in our garage at about 50-60F. The goal is to expand the flock and breedings to have a self-sufficient flock of Thanksgiving/Christmas birds by 2019.